Tips on how to learn custom css

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  luiscongdon · Member · May 11, 2012 at 10:19 pm

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  Can you give me some tips to create a blog that looks like Marie’s site.

  I know it’s custom, but is there a way I can learn to do what she did?

  Sample:
  marieforloe.com

  I like that she has a large picture
  Email captures in several spots
  Picture at the bottom of herself.

  I am not sure how to learn to make my site look hers given it’s custom. Any tips would be awesome.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thistimethisspace · Member · May 11, 2012 at 10:53 pm

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  That site will not load – it’s broken > http://ismyblogworking.com/marieforloe.com

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 12, 2012 at 12:14 am

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  As far as CSS, you need to work through some tutorial so that you gain an understanding of XHTML, CSS and the relationship between the two. You can’t work effectively with CSS if you do not also understand the markup (XHTML).

  atthe404 on CSS:

  There is no trick. But doing CSS requires an understanding of the markup (xhtml). There is no way round that. The CSS applies styles to stuff. To what stuff depends on the markup. So number one read the source (View Source). Get used to it. Feel comfortable with it. Two. Understand what the heck selectors actually are. Different cats of selectors behave in different ways. SO: this is counter intuitive. To understand the CSS do not start in CSS. Start in the xhtml. Then see how they relate. Its all there. :)
  There are gazillions of CSS tutorials on line.